Thanks Sian for this interesting reading on thatched roof tradition. Hope to visit Corrigal farm Museum this July on my visit to orkney. Have looked Graemsay up on my OS map, lots of place names so it seems like a buzzing wee island! I'm particularly interested at the moment in Gairsay which is not that much smaller, but appears to be one big hill, and populated by only one family i believe. (This was where my grandfather worked as an 11year old in 1891.) What do the folk of Graemsay do for a living nowadays?? Fiona (York UK) >From: "SIAN.THOMAS" <Sian.Thomas@btinternet.com> >Reply-To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [<orcadia>] Thatched Roof Traditions >Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:44:43 -0000 > >Anyone interested in Thatched Roof tradition in Orkney Farm Buildings, >there's an article on this at : >http://www.orkney.gov.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=1355 > >And for anyone on the list in Orkney on March 28th, Corrigal Farm Museum >have a Strae (Straw) Day from 2 to 5pm. (Admission Free). Visitors can >see >simmons rope being made as well as having a go, and can try "needling a >roof" too. > >The straw ropes being made are part of a project for re-roofing the Crows >Nest at Rackwick, Hoy in June, led by Paul Newman of the Scottish >Vernacular Buildings Trust. > >Sian >Graemsay >Orkney > > >==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word >'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger